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Table 2 Tribes, genera, and species in the Triatominae subfamily

From: Evolution of hematophagous habit in Triatominae (Heteroptera: Reduviidae)

Tribes

Genera

Number of species

Alberproseniini

Alberprosenia

2

Bolboderini

Belminus

8

 

Bolbodera

1

 

Microtriatoma

2

 

Parabelminus

2

Cavernicolinia

Cavernicola

2

Rhodniini

Psammolestes

3

 

Rhodnius b

17

Triatomini

Dipetalogaster

1

 

Eratyrus

2

 

Hermanlentia c

1

 

Linshcosteus d

6

 

Panstrongylus e

14

 

Paratriatoma

1

 

Triatoma f

81

Total

15

144

  1. Modified from Galvão et al. (2003), Schofield and Galvão (2009), and Bargues et al. (2010). aPreviously, Galvão et al. (2003) included Torrealbaia martinezi (Carcavallo, Jurberg & Lent) in the Cavernicolini tribe due to strong morphological similarities with that group. Later on, Forero et al. (2004) identified the synonymy existing between Torrealbaia (Triatominae) and Amphibolus (Harpactorinae) genera and re-describe this species as Amphibolus venator (Klug) in Harpactorinae. bIncludes Rhodnius montenegrensis sp. Described by Da Rosa et al. (2012) for the state of Rondônia in Brazil. cFormerly described as Triatoma matsunoi (Fernández-Loayza) (Galvão et al. 2003). dWas proposed as a new tribe (Linschcosteini) due to its geographic distribution and non-shared morphological characteristics (Schaefer and Coscarón 2001; Galvão et al. 2003). Nonetheless, ADN sequence comparisons (16S and 28S) suggest that the species of the Linshcosteus genus are genetically related to T. rubrofasciata and could be local derivations of a common ancestor (Hypša et al. 2002: Schofield and Galvão 2009). eIncludes Panstrongylus martinezorum described by Ayala (2009) from the vicinity of Puerto Ayacucho - Venezuela, and absent from the lists of Schofield and Galvão (2009), and Bargues et al. (2010). fIncludes the Meccus (phyllosoma complex), Mepraia (spinolai complex), and Nesotriatoma (flavida complex) genera previously considered as complete taxa (Galvão et al. 2003), although now they are included in the rubrofasciata e infestans groups of the Triatoma genus (Schofield and Galvão 2009; Bargues et al. 2010). Includes Triatoma jatai described by Gonçalves et al. (2013) from Toncantins state, Brazil.